The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-24

One of the heaviest rains Of the season
visited our section on Wednesday after
noon and continued all day and all night.
Farmers with hay on the ground expert
enced once more that the life of the
granger is not wholly free from care.
The Bridgeton Board of Education on
Monday night took fourteen unsuccessful
ballots for a principal for the Bank street
public school, the leading candidates being
the present incumbent, Prof. Prince, and
E. Z. Lewis, formerly Of Woodstown.
Schurk 81 Pease, agents for Salem and
Gloucester counties for the Wheeler s.
Wilson sewing machine, have decided to
make their headquarters at Woodstown.
The machine for which they are agents is
too w~ell-known for it's reliability for us to
say anything about it,. See their adver-
tlsement C. week.
We acknowledge the receipt of an invi-
t~ation, gotten up in the best style of the
engravers' and printers art, to the com
mencemcnt exercises of the 22d year of
Pierce's College of Business in Philadel-
phia, to be held at the Academy of Music
July 1st. Rev. Sam. p. Jones will make
the address on this occasion.
A load Of hay weighing about 1900 es-
sayed to go up the hill on Salem street,
this side the bridge, on Wednesday. The
driver turned a little to one side and the
wheel got ''stuck" in the soft earth and
the motive power, a pair of mules, was
insufficient to get any further. The team
was ungeared, the load backed down hill,
and a fresh start taken with triumphant
success.
Tho origin of the cheap witticism which
refers to New Jersey as "a foreign coun-
try" "outslde the Union" etc, is found in
the fact that our state was supposed to be
the first to grant foreigners the privilege OF
holding and conveying lands within its
borders without ~renouncing their allie
| glance to their native lands. AS a matter
of fact, however, New York state granted
such privileges in twenty-onc instances
several years previous to the date when
New Jersey gave those to Napoleon Bona.
parte.
The Post Office Department will begin
to issue a new design of the ordinary 1-cent
| postage stamp this week. The centre OF
the new stamp consists of a profile bust OF
BENJAMIN Franklin in an oval disk, the
lower portion bordcred with pearls, and
The upper with u curved panel containing
in small white letters the words sUnitcd
| States Postage" The whole is engraved
upon n shield-shaped tablet, with a trun-
Gated pyramidal base, bearing on it the
words cone" and F'cent" on either side oil
the figure 1.
An experienced farmer friend told us
the other day of this cure for founder in
horses, which in his hands has always prov
ed eilcctual. While narrowing corn n few
days since, the weather being extremely
warm, his horse, n fine young animal,
became much heated. He allowed her TIC
stand a short time, facing the wind, to cool
off, and shortly discovered that she was
foundered, and very stil1. He procured a
quantity of spirits OF t%urpentine, and turn
ing up the animals hoof, poured the liquid
into the hoof until it was entirely s%aturat-
ed. In a very little while the stiffness was
entirely removed, and the horse in as
good condition, apparently, as ever. iIl
got this remedy from a German farm hand
several years ago, who tried it successfully
on another horse belonging to our friend.
which had been f%oundered. 1t seems like
heroic surgery, but our friend says it has
never failed in his experience.